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Subject: Re: Little stressed about wisdom teeth extraction! Then braces after!

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Phyllis

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Date Posted: 05:15:22 07/17/04 Sat
In reply to: Dea 's message, "Re: Little stressed about wisdom teeth extraction! Then braces after!" on 08:33:06 07/16/04 Fri

I TOTALLY agree with Dea. I went to an oral surgeon, and they removed all four of my wisdom teeth using I.V. sedation (I think they also call that "twilight sleep"?) They even gave me nitrous oxide (laughing gas) the minute I sat down, so that starting the I.V. for the sedation wouldn't be as stressful (it totally worked). In my opinion, this is the WAY TO GO - I could not believe how easy it was, after months of dreading the procedure.

>Listen, some of us feel pain more than others and have
>sensitive bodies. It is totally unfair of us to try
>to meet standards of people who don't feel the pain in
>the first place; no wonder they can be brave! If we
>didn't feel it much, we could be stoic too! I used an
>oral surgeon to remove my wisdom tooth. It was
>obscenely expensive ($600 for one tooth) but I knew
>nothing from the time I sat down and they put the IV
>in my arm until hours later. I remembered totally
>nothing, I had no swelling, no bleeding, zero pain! If
>you can afford it, go that way. Why stress yourself
>with a dentist wrestling it out while you are awake
>and novocain that makes you chew up your mouth while
>it is numb? If you are anxious and have a low pain
>threshold and are easily grossed out, then protect
>yourself and never mind the toughies who go through it
>with nothing but their guts!

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